PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET made the 2025 Page Awards Top 10 Finalists in the Action/Adventure Category!!! I am so HAPPY! Thank you Page Awards for this huge honor!!!

Excited to dive into this fantasy romance YA series by Adalyn Grace as the covers are gorgeous and having a character as Death is always so intriguing to me! #yafantasybooks #yaromancebooks #booklover

The irony of sharing this poem virtually isn't lost on me! For more of my writing, visit my Substack: substack.com/@kathrynorwi... #poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry

So incredibly thrilled to have made the Semi-Finals of The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards!!!! Top 25 in the Action-Adventure category with PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET!! #scriptsky

Have you ever lost someone and then “see” them where they used to be? A house? A garden? An empty chair at the table? That's today's poem GHOSTS More of my poetry can be found on my substack: substack.com/@kathrynorwi... #poetry #poet #author #poetrycommunity

Today's poem is about the post, the mail, and how in our world of instant messages there are people who carry our letters by hand and walk by foot. The Post: A Poem kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-post

THE SHADOW KING FOURTH WING x ONE DARK WINDOW The girl with shadow wounds that won't heal, the immortal shadow king who wishes for death, a love neither of them could have imagined - all ripped to shreds if they can't unearth a lost tomb and kill the darkness inside. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R

THE SHADOW KING #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R ONE DARK WINDOW x FROM BLOOD & ASH Once a Shadow Demon cuts you, the clock is ticking, not in months, but minutes before you turn into a shadow too. Sahira must kill the Shadow King to live. But will her bleeding heart forgive her?

THE SHADOW KING #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R #agentguide #agentsguide SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x FOURTH WING A fantasy romance where one of them must die for the other to live. ⚔️Reluctant-Allies-To-Enemies-To-Lovers ❤️‍🔥 Spicy Romance ☠️Deadly Demons 💔Brutal Betrayal ✨Found Family

THE SHADOW KING✨15 ms requests✨ #questpit #Q #A #RF SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x GAMES GODS PLAY The kind of love that comes only once in a lifetime or your life? Pick one. Slow Burn Romantasy Witty Flirty Banter Dangerous Desert Creatures Vivid-World Building One Great Love or Irrevocable Loss

The poem I'm setting free today is "The Half-Gone Tree" Give it a perusal on my free Substack: kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-half-g... Love my knobby eyed trees.

Latest poem on my Substack features the buzzing (loud) insects that I've already heard this summer! I love the sound of cicadas as they signal summer to me. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/when-the-c... #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity #poetsky

A short poem on breathing deeply: kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-moment-t... #poemsky #poetry #author

I love reading. Want to know why? We get to experience battles against good and evil, the thrills of a first love, and the joy/sorrow when a journey has reached an end. The Shadow and Bone Series did that for me (especially the last book!) I read all three in five days! #yafantasybooks #reading

I've sat on this poem for a while. I wrote The Shape of a Woman when the #idchoosethebear question stormed the internet. I still think it's relevant. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-shape-... #poetry #poems #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #author #poetsky #writingcommunity

How To Solve Your Own Murder by @kristenperrin.bsky.social was a recent #summerread of mine! I gravitated toward this killer premise, was intrigued by the diary entries, and flipped pages to uncover who the murder(ers?) would be. Have you read it?! #mysterybooks #booksky #bookcovers #bookrecs

Scots Gaelic is the poem up today on my Substack (free) where I've tried to capture a bit of the love I have for Scotland in words kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/scots-gaelic #Scotland #poetry #poetrycommunity #author #WritingCommunity #poetrysky

Made bread today! Ugh my kitchen smells amazing and I just wanna eat it but I can’t until it cools!

Today’s poem To-Do was written years ago and makes me melancholy as both my fur babies pictured (Blu and William) have crossed the rainbow bridge. I’m grateful for the time I had with them, and glad I could recognize it then too. open.substack.com/pub/kathryno... #poetry #poetrycommunity #cat #dog

So excited to see Pirate Queen of the Red Flag Fleet advance in the @Pageawards as a Quarterfinalist! They take the Top 10% of all submissions so I am beyond thankful this script made it into the 994 chosen Quarterfinalists!

How I Ache is the companion poem to What Is Yearning that I released earlier this week! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/how-i-ache #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #poetry #author #writing #reading #readingcommunity #nature

My current read: Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales I’m glad to finally get to these collected fairy tale & folklore stories as I’ve been meaning to for quite some time! What a dark surprise I was in for with these twisty tales full of mischief, revenge, and wildly magical moments!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend for those in the USA! I made biscuits and they were delicious! Today's poem WHAT IS YEARNING is a companion piece to another dropping later this week 👀 kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/what-is-ye... Read the full thing on my Substack (Free!) #poetry

A Collection Of Things is the poem I'm sharing today on my Substack :) It features another one of my typewriters! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-collecti... #typewriter #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #author

Submitting your manuscript to agents, what I've learned and wish I would have known sooner. Plus some resources I highly recommend! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/querying-t... #writerscommunity #querying #author #authorlife

How To Do The Writing Thing This article gives insight to my process of writing and has some tips and tricks to try :) kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/how-to-do-... Also features one of my typewriters and Sir William the Orange Tabby Cat

A Pocket Watch Poem is up now! Here's a snippet - the rest is up for free to read on my Substack! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-pocket-w... #writingcommunity #poetry #pocketwatches

Golden Feast is the title of my next poem up on my Substack today :) kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/golden-feast Here's a little taste! Special thanks to Poet Tree Town A2 for including it in the 2025 PoetTree Town festivities! And to Booksweet for having it displayed for the month of April!

Newest poem on my Substack! I’d Rather Leave Plants is a piece I wrote after contemplating the material things we leave behind after we are gone. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/id-rather-... #poetry #poets #writercommunity #readers #author

Latest poem up on my Substack: Bookshop This poem first appeared in the Poet Tree Town A2 Festival in 2023! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/bookshop-p... It's one of my favorites!

Let’s talk about one of my most favorite questions! How do I write so much, so often?! Find out in my latest substack post! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

New poem up on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/kathryno...

Stories: A Prose Poem Here's a snippet of my poem. You can read the rest on my Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/kathryno...

I created a FREE Substack to help get some of my work off my laptop and into the world. substack.com/@kathrynorwi....

Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.

I am so grateful that my Romantasy manuscript THE SHADOW KING was chosen as an Agent Choice Award Winner! Thank you @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social for this incredible honor and all that you do for writers! Feels very official with a certificate and I love it! 🥰

It’s that time of year again :) From May 2024-April 2025 I kept track of how many pages of writing I was, well…writing! And editing of my own work. (This does not include all the fabulous pieces I read and gave notes on for all my very talented writerly friends!)

I haven’t been posting here much but I’m going to try to be more active! Starting today!

Just heard back from the 3 editors I submitted SHADOW KING to for the Annual #RevPit Competition 2025 @reviseresub.bsky.social. I was on: 1 Short List! 2 Long Lists! 2 #10Queries Posts! Extremely grateful for the actionable feedback and praise they gave for my shadow magic desert Romantasy!

THE SHADOW KING All Sahira ever wanted was a home far from Shadow Demons. What she gets is a Shadow wound (not safe!) must survive The Shadow Lands (very not safe!) to kill the immortal Shadow King (super not safe!). But she would do it all again if it meant saving her sister. #questpit #Q #A #RF

THE SHADOW KING 100K #A #Romantasy am currently #Q with 5 Full Requests out! This story is for the couch adventure seekers and inner princesses wielding daggers and falling in love with a handsome traveling stranger... Warning he may fall first… #RF #F #R #questpit

THE SHADOW KING When mortal-but-fiery Sahira is cursed by a Shadow Demon’s blade, she must venture into the deadly deserts to confront the immortal-yet-infuriatingly-handsome Shadow King—and only one of them can survive. #Q #questpit #RF #F #Romantasy #A #R

MONDAY — It’s #2025Pit Are you an unagented writer who has completed a manuscript? Are you in search of a literary agent? Great, on Monday I’m hosting a pitch event here on BlueSky I hope will connect authors & agents who may like to work together. How does this work? Glad you asked!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

Latest Pirate Queen of the Red Flag Fleet treasures 🏴‍☠️👑⛵️#scriptsky